Kay Chomic > Kay's Quotes

“Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.”
― Issac Asimov

“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
― Sinclair Lewis

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
― Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713

“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
― Phyllis McGinley

“It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

“I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don’t give up.”
― Diana Nyad

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.”
― Henry Green

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
― Sigmund Freud

“There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Home

“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.”
― Winston Churchill